Network Automation

Ransomware and Your Network

Network teams and the devices they manage are not the usual audience for discussions about ransomware. Ransomware affects endpoints and is often the purview of IT administrators and security teams. However, once data is encrypted and/or stolen, the costs of a ransomware attack snowball – as much as 1,000 times higher than if an incident

From 3 hours to 7 minutes per HA pair: Time Saved by Automating Certificate Management

This blog series spotlights real-world moments in which network engineers use BackBox security-centric automation to save their organizations from costly downtime and surprises. Synopsis All firewall vendors require that their customers keep their certificates up to date. This mandatory but time-consuming and tedious administrative task is error-prone and usually occurs at an inconvenient time, making

Why Automate?

Here at BackBox we talk about automation as if it’s the correct choice for everyone, without questioning why that might be. I mean, we get into features, and we’ve got the best backup solution, etc. ” … there’s a lot of network automation and infrastructure automation going on right now,” <— that’s from a Network